Strong Workforce Program Preliminary Regional Results for Applied and Work-Based Learning Surveys

1. Strong Workforce Program • Preliminary Regional Results for • Applied and Work-Based • Learning Surveys December 7, 2018 DRAFT

2. Agenda Assessment Purpose Methodology Regional Responses Purposes for Applied/WBL Opportunities Challenges Supports and Professional Development Interests Recommendations & Next Steps

3. Purpose of the Surveys • Establish overall status of WBL at the campuses • Examine quality features to inform professional development and improvement • Identify challenges to inform systemic reforms • Identify needs for support • Identify requests for professional development to inform offerings • Response goal: enough responses to inform WBL system development

4. Purpose of the Inventory • Establish baseline data at each college, for the college as a whole and/or in key target areas for growth • Support planning for next steps in WBL expansion efforts

5. Applied/ Work-Based Learning Surveys Surveys collect information on: • Types of applied and work-based learning offered • Ways that colleges and faculty implement WBL and job placement • Challenges faced • Requests for support and professional development 2 versions of this survey – a faculty survey and a college perspective survey

6. Methodology Surveys developed by WG 4 Single Point of Contact at each college led the effort to collect data for 4 surveys • Applied and WBL Faculty Survey • Applied and WBL College Perspective • Applied and WBL Inventory • 21st Century Skills 3 week window to collect as much data as possible from each college

7. Regional Responses for Applied and Work-Based Learning Surveys

8. Purposes for WBL as a Teaching Strategy Faculty College Perspective

9. Opportunities Offered Career Assessment & Planning WBL: Career Awareness & Exploration WBL: Career Preparation & Training

10. Career Assessment & Planning 100% of colleges in the region offer: Career assessments or reflective exercises Opportunities for students to talk with a counselor or staff member who has career guidance training Career awareness and exploration class Development of a format “education plan” that incorporates career options or goals based on prior career education Resume writing Interview skills training (e.g., mock interviews) 90% of colleges in the region offer: Written or electronic based tools that describe various careers Pathways or multimedia tools that describe various careers

11. Types of career assessment, planning, or job readiness activities available at your college? Faculty Responses: • Top 3 Responses for Faculty • & College Perspective: • Opportunities for students to talk with counselor for career guidance • Resume writing • Development of a formal “education plan” incorporating career options or goals based on prior career exploration

12. Work-based Learning Continuum

13. WBL: Career Awareness and Exploration Opportunities Offered • Faculty • Career fairs • Industry speakers/presentations • Informational interviews with industry pros. • Workplace tours

14. WBL: Career Awareness and ExplorationPrimary broker/facilitator of opportunities • Faculty: • Career center brokers career fairs • Faculty broker all other opportunities • College Perspective: • Career center brokers all opportunities • Students facilitate their own Job Shadowing

15. WBL: Career Preparation and Training Opportunities Offered • 100% of colleges in the region offer • Classroom projects with industry involvement • Internships (unpaid) • Internships (paid) • Clinical experiences required by regulatory agencies (e.g., in nursing) • Jobs • 90% of colleges in the region offer • Service learning • Cooperative work experience education • Volunteering/community service • Simulated workplace experience • 80% of colleges in the region offer • Apprenticeships • 70% of colleges in the region offer • Student-run commercial or social enterprises • On-the-job training

16. WBL: Career Preparation and Training Opportunities Offered Faculty: • Top Responses for College Perspective & Faculty: • Internships (unpaid) • Volunteering/community service • Jobs • Service Learning • Internships (paid) • Simulated workplace experience

17. WBL: Career Preparation & TrainingPrimary broker/facilitator of opportunities • Career preparation and training opportunities are most often brokered by: • Career Center • Department/faculty facilitate for entire program/department • Individual faculty facilitating for their own class

18. Challenges to Applied/WBL & Job Placement

19. Challenges to Implementing Applied & WBL • Most frequently reported challenges: • Students’ need to work for their livelihoods, making it difficult to take unpaid or temporary internships • 100% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (38% reported very challenging) • 98% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (48% reported very challenging) • Lack of paid intensive workplace learning opportunities (such as paid internships)  • 100% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (31% reported very challenging) • 89% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (37% reported very challenging) • Students’ overall lack of time for any extra experiences • 94% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (25% reported very challenging) • 95% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (32% reported very challenging)

20. Challenges to Implementing Applied & WBL (continued)Most frequently reported challenges: • Time required to engage employers and coordinate student placements  • 91% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (25% reported very challenging) • 90% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (31% reported very challenging) • Lack of student preparedness and required skills • 91% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (6% reported very challenging) • 86% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (13% reported very challenging) • Lack of staff to broker opportunities  • 87% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (34% reported very challenging) • 90% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a challenge (31% reported very challenging)

21. Challenges to Implementing Applied & WBL (continued)Additional emerging themes (from analysis of open-ended responses) • Marketing and communication challenges • Students need to understand the importance of WBL as it relates to career preparation • Language as consideration in career preparation and WBL • Lack of professional space for meetings with employers • “Marketing opportunities to students; most often we market through each program's faculty.” • “Making it explicit how what I teach is related to what workforce wants.”

22. Challenges Related to Job Placement Most frequently reported challenges: • Lack of staff time for case management  • CP = 38% very challenging • Faculty = 32% very challenging • Students already working • Students lack resources (e.g., clothing, transportation, child care, etc.) • Students need knowledge of industry culture • Students need knowledge ofworkplace practices (e.g., how organizations and interviews work)  • Students need improved interview skills • Students need improved writing skills for applicationand resumes

23. Challenges to Job Placement (continued)Additional emerging themes (from analysis of open-ended responses) • Students need to recognize the importance of career preparation and understand the time and effort it takes to find a meaningful job • Lack of Institutional support “The challenge is convincing students that this knowledge and experience will make them more successful.” • “The campus culture isn't in tune with the idea of WBL. It needs to be embedded in how we orient our students and staff/faculty.”

24. Supports and Professional Development Needed

25. Support Needed: To expand/improve Applied & WBL • College Perspective Survey and Faculty Survey respondents agreed: • All 6 types of supports are needed • The top 2 support needs are: • Support for preparing students for experiences • 79% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a support needed • 65% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a support needed • Support for placement of students • 79% of College Perspective Survey respondents reported this as a support needed • 68% of Faculty Survey respondents reported this as a support needed

26. Supports Needed for Applied & WBLAdditional emerging themes (from analysis of open-ended responses) • Marketing and communication to students so they understand the importance of WBL as it relates to career preparation • Employer engagement to support work-based learning • Time and staff to teach job readiness skills • Institutional support and collaboration • Language support for ELLs • Need for data collection and tracking • “Workshops regarding job-readiness skills have been offered regularly…but few instructors support their students' attendance at such opportunities…” • “Need to institutionalize Work Based Learning activities from staffing, resources, database, marketing to students and faculty, etc.”

27. Support Needed: To expand/improve Job Placement • College Perspective Survey and Faculty Survey respondents agreed: • All 8 types of supports are needed • The top 3 support needs are: • Work with faculty to ensure that students are adequately prepared with language and writing skills • Work with WBL Coordinators to ensure that students have prior exposure to and experience in industries and workplaces of interest • Work with faculty to ensure students prepared with technical and other workplace skills and knowledge

28. Supports Needed for Job PlacementAdditional emerging themes (from analysis of open-ended responses) • Institutional support and collaboration • Employer engagement to support job placement • Marketing and communication to students about career preparation services • Language support for ELLs • Transportation support • “More collaboration between faculty and Student Employment services.” • “I'd like more support/ability to get the career center and professionals into my classroom to assist with job seeking skills.”

29. Professional Development Interests • College Perspective & Faculty • High percent of both indicated interests in all 5 types of PD • 79-97% college perspective • 80-93% faculty • Professional development opportunities: • Services and resources to support job placement • Services and resources to support WBL • Opportunity to hear about best practices • Work with peers working in the same industry sector to embed WBL into curriculum • Experience WBL first hand, through a faculty job shadow or internship

30. Professional Development Interests • Additional emerging themes (from analysis of open-ended responses) • Employer engagement and sector information • Incentivize participation in professional development opportunities • Technology • Delivery of professional development

31. Employer Engagement

32. College Perspective Employer Engagement: Current Support • Students reach out to employers on their own • Career center staff facilitate outreach • Department/faculty facilitate for the entire department/program • Existing coordinator facilitates outreach • Special program staff facilitate outreach • Deputy Sector Navigators (DSNs) facilitate outreach by sector • Work through an outside organization such as a local nonprofit organization • Employment office facilitates outreach • Other • Work through the Workforce Board

33. Employer Engagement: Current Support College Perspective Faculty • Top 3 Responses: • Students reach out to employers on their own (67%) • Career center facilitates outreach (64%) • Department/faculty facilitate their own department/program (58%) • Top 3 Responses: • Career center facilitates outreach (55%) • Students reach out to employers on their own (49%) • Department/faculty facilitate their own department/program (47%)

34. Goals and Ideas for Expanding or Improving Applied & WBL • Increase awareness about applied and WBL opportunities (communication and technology) • Increase the number and types of applied and WBL opportunities • Institutionalize and improve collaboration for more structure and support • Create curriculum and learning opportunities related to industry or employability skills • Incentivize students / help them see the relevance and importance • Increase professional development • Increase employer engagement • Improve data and tracking systems • Technology • English language support

35. Recommendations & Next Steps • Goal: • Use these survey data to institutionalize WBL practices across the region • Next Steps: • Onboarding for WBL Coordinators and Job Placement Case Managers (JPCMs) • Provide college level teams, including WBL Coordinators, JPCMs, and existing WBL staff from each college, data from all 4 surveys for review • Establish WBL Community of Practice (CoP) including teams from each campus • Convene WBL CoP to review regional and college data and conduct SWOT analysis for strategic planning

36. (Optional Slide to include)WBL Inventory: Number of opportunities offered in your program (2017-18)(117 programs reporting across the region – includes 9 of 10 colleges)